The Magic Flute

No celebration of vocal excess is complete without at least one Mozart opera. This year’s Saint Paul Summer Song Festival meets that requirement by adding a film component to its annual lineup of music recitals (which features British baritone Christopher Maltman, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore, and the Rose Ensemble, among others), screening Ingmar Bergman’s 1975 version of The Magic Flute. Mozart’s opera spins a silly fairy tale about a young man’s epic journey; Bergman’s film, in turn, presents the opera from an omniscient perspective that follows the action both onstage and backstage. See it with a crowd that knows and loves the opera. Håkan Hagegård, the Swedish baritone who played Papageno, will introduce the film. www.schubert.org; 651-292-3268; www.ordway.org